Example sentences of "social factors [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sees and understands any situation in its complexity , the physical , mental , emotional and social factors interacting , the strengths and weaknesses of the client and principal carers , the meaning of the situation to them all and the impact on the family network and its way of coping . |
| 2 | But Labour saw the Liberals as being a ‘ capitalist ’ party , and therefore hardly better than the Conservatives ; and there were , in addition , powerful social factors predisposing Labour to a dislike of the Liberals whom they regarded as haughty and patronising in manner . |
| 3 | The theme selected for the research was an investigation into social factors affecting output . |
| 4 | The social factors affecting the employment of older women in Britain will be examined in this research , which uses the work and family history data from the 1987 Social Life and Economic Change Initiative and the General Household Survey for the years 1987-89 . |
| 5 | It is reasonable to suppose , therefore , that in relation to social factors influencing decision making , the ASW played an important part . |
| 6 | For methodological reasons , it is important to distinguish between this and the socially based interpretation of the results , because if the social factors involved are seen as the motivating principle for the selection and analysis of linguistic variables , the investigators may be accused of biased selectivity and circularity . |
| 7 | The first argument simply asserts that social factors outweigh individual ones . |
| 8 | Using scores derived from the Jarman underprivileged area index for this purpose seems to have face validity — the index was developed from a survey of one in 10 British general practitioners who were asked to weight social factors according to how much they thought they increased workload . |
| 9 | The evidence on social factors related to the course of schizophrenic disorder is still the most valuable information available for prevention . |
| 10 | Roadburg ( 1980 ) provides a checklist of the key historical , ecological and social factors distinguishing British soccer as a spectator sport from its American counterpart . |
| 11 | Each of these social factors runs parallel to characteristically modernist phenomena in the aesthetic realm . |
| 12 | Psychological and social factors predicted rates of short , and to a lesser extent , long spells of absence . |
| 13 | We have , therefore , to consider why marriages effectively end , as well as why couples will go as far as to go to the courts to legally separate , and what social factors underlie the responses to changes in legislation . |
| 14 | Patterns varied from area to area , differed between industrial and rural areas , and between city and city , and a host of social factors have to be taken into account . |
| 15 | Social factors include the general level of unemployment in the neighbourhood and whether there is a local trend for firms to shed their work force . |
| 16 | A report published in November 1989 , commissioned by the environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth , stressed that between 300,000,000 and 500,000,000 forestland farmers , who were forced by economic and social factors to seek a livelihood on the margins of the rainforests , accounted " for well over half of all deforestation " . |
| 17 | But just how genetic , organic and social factors interact is not at all clear . |
| 18 | Although these differences were not significant , there was less concentration on social factors relating to wider social supports and financial-material circumstances with GP referrals , suggesting , in the face of the GP 's referral , and despite section diversions , less preparedness by ASWs to examine social factors which may challenge the GP 's definition . |
| 19 | Through the daily use of our special knowledge of the counter-culture , we were forced to acknowledge and come to grips with many of the complex social factors surrounding some drug use , which a legal framework could never adequately encompass . |
| 20 | Although these ‘ informational building blocks ’ combine with a multiplicity of political and social factors to direct an individual 's action , they determine the limits of our knowledge and of our perceptions of events and their causes . |
| 21 | What makes BSL different are the emotional and social factors attached to deafness and the more obvious opportunity to mix both English and BSL in production since they , superficially at least , occupy different media . |
| 22 | climatic , and social factors affect the impact of epidemic disease in an urban environment . |
| 23 | For example the considerable criticism of the police response to domestic disputes ‘ mainly related to their failure to take effective action by arresting men who assault their wives and girl friends ’ ( Shapland and Hobbs 1989 ) is largely determined by wider social factors pertaining to the historical role and place of women in society . |
| 24 | Land-tenure systems , leading to decreasing farm size and fragmentation , and high levels of population growth are among the social factors contributing to environmental change . |
| 25 | Indeed , such communities may not be typical of communities as a whole : Romaine ( 1982 ) regards it as certain that linguistic and social factors do not often interact straightforwardly in the way Labov suggests . |